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Argentine pilot buried
Remains buried with full military honours

10 April 2009

The remains of an Argentine pilot discovered in the Falkland Islands have been laid to rest.

1st Lieutenant Jorge Casco, a pilot in the Argentine Air Force, was killed when his aircraft crashed on South Jason Island in 1982.

At the end of the conflict, he was buried in the cemetery at Darwin, East Falkland, but several years later additional remains were discovered by the UK Military close to the site where his Skyhawk aircraft crashed.

At the request of the Argentine Government, they were returned to Argentina in July 2008 for DNA testing that confirmed that they did belong to Lt Casco.

His family asked that these remains were reunited with the partial remains that were buried at Darwin in 1982.

The Initial Force Protection Flight at Royal Air Force Halton and members from 2 Squadron RAF Regiment were tasked with providing a bearer party to assist at the reburial of Lieutenant Casco with full military honours. The ceremony was conducted by Monsignor Michael McPartland.

In line with previous protocol and in accordance with the Geneva Convention, the UK military provided military honours at the burial, including a firing party. Members of Lt Casco's family flew to the Falklands for the reburial.

Sgt Dean Vaughan said: "It was a great honour for us to assist in the burial of Lt Casco. "The professionalism of my team was something the Royal Air Force can be proud of.

"The right levels of protocol were adhered to and his family were most certainly moved by the ceremony."
 

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Great Video showing the capture on Leutenat Ricardo Lucero by the crew of HMS Fearless 25th may 1982. Fun fact: the dark skin of Mr Lucero gave place to some speculations that peruvian pilots were flying along argentine pilots again the british Forces, in fact Peru sold 11 Mirages VP but further help was rejected by argentinian Goverment. Lucero was flying an A-4c and probably was hit by Seacat missile.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI5M9lX9nKY
 
Personally I dont feel offended by any Headline.The argentine newspapers of the period were triunfalistic as well, the big differente was that they had no option because we were on a 7 years period of no free speech allowed (dictatorship you know)
 
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CharlesBronson said:
Personally I dont feel offended by any Headline.The argentine newspapers of the period were triunfalistic as well, the big differente was taht they had no option because we were on a 7 years period of no free speech allowed (dicattorship you know)
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It was a very jingoistic period with Thatcher beating the war drum ( to get re-elected for a disastrous 3rd term)
Most Brits had never even heard of the Falklands !
Mind you it was the last time that Britain had the capacity to launch a long range attack on our own.
If you guys invaded tomorrow, it'll be all yours.
Cheers
John
 
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arent the british miltary attempting to address that with thir new carrier and the JSF? I read somewhere that the RN now had fewer than 30 frigates....any truth to that? And have they scrapped their amphibious and C&C ships?

I also thought the brits maintained a permanent and more significant military presence on the island. Aproximately squadron sized air and battalion sizd ground force?????
 

We cannot fight half the Muslim world and still defend some insignificant islands in the South Atlantic. Unless there is oil involved....sorry to be cynical.
The new carriers are, well, not the solution. One is to be operational, the others mothballed. We have to borrow from the French these days.
The recent defence expenditure cuts have destroyed our capacity.
We fight illegal wars we cannot afford while our schools have to ask parents to buy pencils and our old people (WW2 vets) are treated poorly.
I would say more but, that will get political and is not appropriate for this forum.
John
 
Argentina and Britain had for many many years special relations both politically culturally and economically, dont think for a minute that make me happy that Uk is in a poor state military speaking, I would love to see both countries big and strong, and to solve this stupid dispute peacefully.
 

Well said, I agree completely with you, that is why the Falklands conflict was so ridiculous.
We welcomed the Argentina rugby team in the last rugby world club and cheered you on to try and beat the French.
Our economic problems beset us and something has to give and most people would rather accept a reduced armed forces than another cut in health care.
The Falklands dispute could be solved tomorrow if the will is there to do so.
I'm really glad to have talked this over with you.
Cheers
John
 
At the risk of treading on sensibilities, isnt the basic problem that whilst the islands are geographically and historically part of Argentina, people wise it is more british than Britain. They want to stay part of Britiain do they not?

What do you do with that....a very difficult problem, and probably no satisfactory answer....
 

Spot on Parsifal, That is the nub of the problem.
So, what do we do?
Agree with the Argentine government to let them be British or fight again ?
After years of fighting in the middle east and the casualties that continually shock us I am not sure that there is any appetite for another punch up over the Falklands.
That's assuming that we could reach out that far.
cheers
John
 
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